The legislation which I proposed this year, and which is now before the Congress, will help the Corporation to carry forward the objectives it should fulfill in the coming decade.

For if the dream is to become the reality, peace must be preserved for mankind, and peace is the purpose of all that we do.

All we do at home and all we do throughout the world, is meant to assure men the right to 'freedom under law' and the right to expect impartial justice.

We never forget those great words of this Charter: To no one will we sell, to none will we deny or delay, right or justice.

What began 30 years ago as an experiment to provide economic justice for the farmer has now become a tested instrument in the continuing experiment each generation performs to demonstrate the vitality of our democracy.

A great public servant in the early days of the republic of my State said: 'Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men will recognize, and the only ruler that free men will accept.'

This central faith remains an unchallenged tenet of the American way of life.

Belief in education is, of course, not a new belief.

We are far too easily satisfied when we know that a child has a desk in a classroom with a teacher to instruct him.

It is what happens inside that classroom that really counts, and that is finally what is really important.

Most of all we need an education which will create an educated mind.

It really was the instrument which took a boy from the countryside of Texas and opened to him the boundless dreams and the opportunities of American life.

We need education which will stimulate and which will energize the free spirit, rather than to crush it and dampen it, as is so often true.

We asked you to come here to stimulate some fresh thinking, not just talk about old ideas.

I plan to take your proceedings and read them myself and to circulate them to every office of Government concerned with this subject.

This Nation has really always been an experiment--an experiment in the capacity of a whole people, ruling its rulers, to deal with changing peril and with shifting expectations.

I not only learned, but I taught, and I saw for myself how the light of learning could brighten the path of the humble.

Adlai Stevenson enlarged our horizons as Americans and helped to light the hopes of mankind all around the world.